The Sun. — London, England, 1838-11-23 00:00:00

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MOIIROW. Morning tA minntes situ 6 I Evening iniutes after 7 THE LONDON AND WESTMINSTER REVIEW, No. LXII., will be published on MONDAY, CONTA I NING : I. The Ab o li t i on i sts : Martyr Age of the United States. 2. Varnhagen Von Ense's Memoirs. 3. Prince Napoleon Louis Bonaparte. 4. Simonides. 5. Yankieana; Sam Slick, Colonel Crocket, and Major Lack Downing. 6. Heloise and Abelard, by Guizot and Cousin. 7. Songs of the Metropolis. 8. Lord Durham's Return. London : Henry Hooper, Pall-mall East. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black. NEW WORK by the AUTHOR of " RANDOM RECOL- LEC TIONS," In a few days will be published, in 2 vols. po s t Svo., TRAVELS IN TOWN. By the Author of " Random Recollections," The Great Metropolis," &c. &c. Saunders and Otley, Conduit-street, Hanover-square. Orders received by all Booksellers. THE LEGAL OBSERVER (Nos. 495 and 6) contains (besides the usual Legal Varieties)—A Letter to the Lord Chancellor on the Arrears in Equity ; the Report of the Commissioners on Registers of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, verbatim ; Question of the Michaelmas Term Examination ; a List of the Candidates who passed, and Result of Examination ; Impor tant Decisions on the Imprisonment for Debt Act ; Disquisitions on Defective Assignments of Articles of Clerkship, and on the Reports of the Real Property Commissioners ; Notes of the Term ; Reports of Cases, Professional Lists, &c. &c. Published, for the Proprietors, by E. Spettigue, Law Bookseller, 67, Chancery-lane. The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced tins clay at 10 minutes past Three o'clock .. _ ,f ...i" .. 37 .. -....... e tirL WITH WHICH THE " TRUE SUN " IS NOW INCORPORATED. LONDON: FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 23, 1838. The news received this morning from the East is highly important. According to three letters from Constantinople, all dated the 31st ult, a Cabinet messenger had reached the British Embassy two days previously, with dispatches from Mr. M'NEIL, our Ambassador in Persia, announcing that the SHAH had raised the siege of Herat, and to remove all doubt of his MAJESTY'S good faith, was then, with his whole army, at a distance of fifty-two miles from that city, on his return to Teheran. According to one statement, our Ambassa dor finding the SHAH inclined to listen to the over tures made him by the agents of Russia, who backed offers of substantial assistance by representing to him that it would disgrace his MAJESTY in the eyes of his subjects, no less than in those of their Imperial Mas ter, to raise the siege at the instance of a British Envoy, ordered Colonel STODDART to state dis tinctly that the British authorities in India, had actually authorized the march of 30,000 Bri tish troops, for the relief of the city, and that in the event of the siege not being raised in the time specified, an intimation to that effect would be given to the besieged to encourage them to hold out. Other circumstances concurred to give powerful effect to the representations of the British Ambassador. We yes terday saw a letter from a British Officer at Teheran, dated the 27th of September, who stated that a deserter from the Herattees offered to betray the city to the SHAH on conditions which were at once accepted. In the middle of the night, conducted by their guide, a body of Persians entered the city, and had advanced a good way before they discovered that the gate had been closed and their retreat cut off. Hemmed in on all sides they were butchered without mercy, to the number of 1,000 men and '72 officers. The success of this stratagem, and the sight of the heads of their companions in arms, made a strong impression upon the Persians, previously disheartened by the report of the landing of a British army at Bu shire. Two of the letters from Constantinople attach no credit to the report of the insurrection of the Georgiaos, and the massacre of 6,000 Russians, mentioned it► the correspondence from Turkey, which will be found elsewhere in our columns. We have, however, reason to believe that this report is well founded, though, as regards the number of the slain, somewhat exagerated. It is with pleasure we learn from these letters, that France has signed the Commercial Treaty between England and the Porte, and that Austria has signified her willingness to adopt it, by way of protection to her subjects against the sinister designs of Russia. What now becomes of the boasted German Commercial League ? As the labours of the Committee appointed by the House of Commons, on the important question of the Reduction of Postage, seem likely to occupy a con siderable share of the public attention, a short account of the appointment of that Committee and its proceed ings may not be uninteresting. During the early part of the last Session, in conse quence of the general uneasiness that was beginning to be felt, on account of the enormously high rates of postage, and of the anxiety which Mr. RowLAND HILL'S valuable pamphlet had spread upon the sub ject, the House of Commons, on the motion of Mr. R. WALLACE, the Member for Greenock, appointed a Committee " To inquire into the present rates and mode of charging postage, with a view to such a reduction thereof as may be made without injury to the Revenue ; and for this purpose to examine specially into the mode recom mended for charginc , and collecting postage, in a pamphlet published by Mr. Rowland Hill." The Members were Mr. Wallace (Chairman), Mr. Poulett Thomson, Lord Viscount Lowther, Lord Seymour, Mr. Warburton, Sir Thomas Fremantle, Mr. Raikes Currie, Mr. Morgan John O'Connell, Mr. Thornely, Mr. Chalmers, Mr. Pease, Mr, Mabony, Mr. Parker (Sheffield), Mr. George William Wood, and Mr. Villiers. That Committee commenced its sittings in Febru ary, and proceeded regularly during the whole of the Session, sitting three days a-week, and usually four hours per day, taking evidence. In consequence of the conviction that was enter tained of the great body of evidence that could be given, if it were properly collected and methodized, a Committee of Merchants of Lond on , appoint e d a So licitor to collect that evidence, and to produce it to the Parliamentary Committee. Amongst the members of the Mercantile Committee, there are members of firms who expend 1,000/. and 2,000/. a year in postage. Such men of course, from the extent of their corre spondence, had the means of judging of the injurious effects of high rates of postage upon trade and com merce ; and feeling satisfied that the evidence only needed to be collected, their Solicitor was instructed to apply to the Parliamentary Committee, for permission to produce and examine witnesses. The Parliamentary Committee at first refused, but they ultimately permitted the Solicitor to produce his witnesses, attend in the room, and hear them examined, and the Chairman having permitted him to hand up a list of such questions as he desired to have put to the witnesses, a great portion of the two volumes of evi dence, which have been published, has been the result. Many officers from the Post-office were also called, by the Parliamentary Committee before them to give evidence. We believe it was not at first anticipated by the Parliamentary Committee, that evidence to the extent to which it was produced before them, could be brought together. After a few witnesses had been examined, and the character of the evidence which the industry of the Merchants had prepared was perceived, it ap pears by the Report that the Parliamentary Committee required, through their Chairman, to be informed of the further evidence it was intended by the Mercantile Committee to offer, and the following letter addressed to the Chairman of the Committee, appears in the Appendix : LETTER FROM W. H. ASHURST, ESQ., TO R. WALLACE, ESQ., M.P., (CHAIRSIAN.) . _ _ Office of the Mercantile Committee on Postage, 6, Freeman's -court, Cornhill, March 28, 1838. SIR,—In answer to your inquiry as to the further evi dence I intend to offer, I beg respectfully to state to the Committee, that, as agent for the London Mercantile Com mittee, I propose to produce, in addition to the witnesses I have already produced, witnesses from nearly every other branch of trade and commerce not already examined, to show that there is hardly any branch of trade in which the proposed reduction of postage to one penny will not pro duce so considerable an increase in the number of letters through the Post-office, that all fear of diminution in the revenue may be safely dismissed. I should call auctioneers ; official assignees ; brokers and agents in most of the leading trades ; persons from the Corn-market ; persons from the Coal-exchange ; iron. mongers ; grocers ; hardware-men ; medicine venders ; architects ; engineers ; medical men ; officers of religious societies ; officers of educational societies; officers of sta tistical and scientific associations ; foreign merchants ; offi eers from insurance and joint-stock companies ; officers of poor-law unions ; foreign wine merchants, the extent of whose communications by circulars through the Post-office with reference to the vintages would be very large ; war fingers ; carriers ; manufacturers. _ . I have already communications from Edinburgh, Glas gow, Nottingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Bristol, Leeds, Dublin, Sheffield, of a very important character on this subject. I propose also to show by other evidence the extent of the suppressive effect of the present rates upon all persons in trade, in inducing them to abstain from communica tions it is desirable for the regularity of their business to make, and that they would make them through the Post office at a very low postage. I propose to produce much further evidence to show the extent of the evasion of postage. I shall also produce evidence to show the suppression of an immense quantity of domestic correspondence amongst all classes of society, who cannot obtain the advantage of franks or other very cheap modes of conveyance. The close application of the Committee, and the regu larity with which they have hitherto given three days in the week to the investigation ; the necessity I have been under of devoting the whole of the intermediate days in getting up and preparing for the succeding day's business before the Committee, has prevented my correspondence to the extent necessary with the cities and towns I have men tioned and the country generally ; but during the recess, I shall do this, and be thereby enabled to economise the time of the Committee, and the money of the public, by prev;ously ascertaining the competency of the witnesses to be called to give material evidence. Communications are being made to the Londor. Mer cantile Committee in such numbers that the conviction is every day increasing that the extent of the suppression of letters and the strength and generality of the habit of evading postage has not been by any persons believed to exist to the extant to which in fact it now appears that it does exist. An important public meeting has recently been held in Manchester to petition Parliament on this subject, and a Committee appointed there to get up evidence, and to com municate with the London Mercantile Committee. • I am, of course, in the hands of your Committee, and am prepared with evidence to go on, but I respectfully sub mit that I should probably best aid the purposes of the Committee if I am granted time to see witnesses in the various branches of which I have spoken, and to arrange and limit the evidence. I have no doubt I could then shorten the evidence mate rially; for such is the anxiety of witnesses to give evidence now, that in the brief interviews I have with them I have not time to satisfy them that the facts they are all desirous to state fully need now only be glanced at. If the Committee will permit me, I shall take the liberty of showing them the bulk of letters which I have received during the short t;me the London Mercantile Committee have instructed me to act in this matter. If the Committee think fit to intimate any wish to me, I shall most readily and respectfully attend to it, for the Mercantile Committee are desirous to save expense in this investigation, and anxious to secure the revenue. I have, &c. (Signed) W. H. ASHURST, Agent for the Mercantile Committee on Postage At this time witnesses from one or two branches of trade had been examined ; but in consequence of the extent to which it appeared likely that the evidence would extend, and the conviction, then beginning to be felt, that the evidence was likely to sustain the case, and the Parliamentary Committee desiring to hear witnesses from as many district branches of trade as they could, they desired that the solicitor would, so far as he could, confine himself to producing one wit ness upon each head of evidence which he intended to open. This request of the Parliamentary Committee was attended to; and it ultimately ended in the conviction that there was no necessity to call more witnesses ; that those who had been examined were sufficient ; and that the case sought to be proved had been esta blished. It is understood the Committee has re ported, though the Report is not yet published, that a penny postage ought to be established, as soon as the revenue will admit of a reduction ; and that a reduc tion ought to be immediately made on all inland letters weighing half an ounce, to twopence. It is sup posed by some that it would t ake two y ears, if the reduction were made to one penny, to bring the rece nue up to its present amount. In addition to the portion of the evidence which we have already printed, there is an immense mass of testimony brought to bear upon the subject, and tendered to the Committee, to which we shall, from time to time, draw the public at tention. The result seems likely to associate the name of ROWLAND HILL with one of the most important administrative reforms and national benefits that can be opened to a society in an advanced state of civiliza tion. The Mercantile Committee, who have taken this matter up, and produced so satisfactory a case, are also entitled to the gratitude of the country, for their exertions ; and we trust they will not relax those exer tions until this great and important measure is carried. The LORD MAYOR, from his seat on the Justice Bench, stated the other day that he knew " tricks" were practiced in the Coal-trade, and a " most inju rious combination" existed against the inhabitants of the metropolis. Mr. GALLOWAY, yesterday, in the Common Council, used language still stronger, and affirmed from his own knowledge, that an " extensive conspiracy existed against the public interest ;" and Mr. BRADFIELD for the last ten years has been using his " boring power" to convince the civic authorities that not only a conspiracy exists, but actual robbery is committed, and further, that the public pay Hs. a ton for coals more than they ought to pay ; yet the conspiracy is defended or denied, and the evil goes on, and in all probability will go on till the whole system of municipal government is radi cally changed. The LORD MAYOR and Mr. GAL LOWAY, no doubt, would willingly destroy the conspi racy at once, if they had the power, but the abuse has become so inveterate, so many men who are called re spectable are interested in robbing the public, and the public themselves place such blind confidence in those they have elected into office, that ordinary courage and ordinary perseverance are only wasted in the I attempt to obtain redress. No public body re forms itself. The pressure from without is the clonally bestir real retfhoermmseerlves ,and till th e c i t i zens o f Lon , or the Government under take the invidious task of removing abuses which the City functionaries call vested rights and ancient privileges, the robbery of the many for the sake of the few will continue to triumph. A new sy s t em o f police is now in agitation, and why ? Not because the City authorities desired it, but hecaustkeLinogrd out of J R USSELL announced his intenti on of a their hands power which they only made subset.- vient to their own selfish purposes. They have had ten years to consider the subject, and they would have considered it for ten years more but for this useful hint of the Home Secretary. AU the boroughs throughout Great Britain have been reformed, except the Metro politan Borough. The reform of Babylon the Great was left for the consideration of the City functionaries; they have now been considering that subject also for a period of years, and will continue to consider it, or, in their own words, to use their " most strenuous exer tions to rake it a model for all other Corporations," with littlt benefit to the public, unless the City Re form Association, or the Government, compel them to begin the work in earnest. But it is too much to expect that men having an interest in abuse will era dicate the evil. It will be seen from the Report, that Mr. BRADFIELD'S petition was referred to the Coal Committee, and we may just as well expect that the City will reform itself, as that this Committee will take any steps to remove the grievance. The Dissenters propose, we see, to form a General Union for the Promotion of Religious Equality; and the proposal is already assailed by the organs of the Church as an attack on its rights and privileges. They ac knowledge, therefore, that the Church is an op. pressor, and cannot thrive unless it be by the oppres- sion of other sects. The suddeness and fierceness o f the assault must serve to convince the Dissenters that their plan is well formed, and must encourage them to persevere. In another part of our Paper that plan is inserted, and we are inclined to think with the Patriot: that many of the clergy of the Church of England will be induced to join the Dissenters. They want re ligious equality, and want protection against the arro gance of their diocesians as much as the Dissenters. In the whole circle of priestly domination nothing more offensive is to be found than the Bishop of EXETER'S treatment of Mr. HEAD ; and, according to the Pa triot, the Hon. and Rev: BAPTIST NOEL has now been treated almost as ungracionsly by the Bishop of LONDON. The Prelates seem desirous to convince their clergy, as the great body of the people have long been convinced, that it will go well neither with religion nor morality till there is religious equality amongst the parsons as well as amongst the sects. The Times is like the man mentioned in the Gospel, of whom the evil spirits, after being once driven out, again took possession, and of whom the last days were worse than the first. About a week ago, under the influence of some sudden impulse of generosity and justice, at which it is to-day more surprised than even the public was at the moment, it paid Lord PA L ME RSTON indirectly some fine compliments—spoke of the commercial treaties concluded with Austria and Turkey as " prudent and efficient measures of defence and precaution, adopted under difficuties of no com mon sort ; and, well managed, though in a spirit of perfect peace, and equity, and honour, may quash a projected invasion of Turkey without spilling a drop of blood." It then referred to the approbation fairly earned by the Minister (Lord PALMERSTON), " to whom we are indebted for them." To-day it seems, overflowing with rage that it should ever for one moment have forgotten itself so far as to be decently , just and candid, and under the real or pretended inspi ration of " a Levant Merchant" attacks Lord PA L ER STON and Lord PONSONBY in the true wild-beast style of the Times. It has now found out that these Noblemen had nothing to do with one of those treaties, but to endeavour to suppress it, and will, no doubt, speedily bring forward evidence that the other has been forced on them by Prince METTERNICH and Mr. M‘GREGOR, their own agent, as this was forced on them in despite of themselves, by a former Secretary, Mr. URQUHART (DAOUD BET), and REDCHID PACHA. Lord PONSONBY is, according to the Times, a faineant, and semi-traitor, while Lord PAL- M ERSTON is worse ; and the Times hates itself for ever having said a word of him not characteristic of the most despicable qualities of man. We are afraid that we may have been instrumental in causing this sudden relapse from a momentary sanity, by pointing out on Monday what the Times was aiming at by its praise and its exhortations. Being now convinced, however, that it cannot take to itself the credit of having brought Russia to its senses ; that the world is not likely to believe that its thunder induced the SHAH of Persia to retire from Herat, the Circassians to de feat the Russians, or the SULTAN to sign the treaty, it is resolved that the Ministers shall have no credit, and it depreciates to-day the Nobleman it lauded on yesterday week, as if he, instead of the Duke of WEL LINGTON, had sacrificed Turkey. The circumstance on which the Times dwells as a proof of Lord PALMER STON'S bad behaviour, the return of ,Sir R. STOP FORD to Malta, we regard as the certain sign of Lord PALMERSTON'S complete success ; because Sir RO BERT would certainly not return, unless all parties were fully assured that Russia means to respect the independence of Turkey. We give the article from our Contemporary which has suggested these few words, in order that our readers may compare it with the articles we copied from the same Journal on last Monday and yesterday week. The address to the Working Classes, by a working man, on the subject of the Corn-laws, and their effect o on wages will, we hope, be read by all those to who m it is addressed. It is a very convincing paper, and should satify every person except the Landlords and the Tithe Lords. The address has been published by the Anti-Corn-law Association at Manchester for dis tribution, and is written, we understand, by an old hand-loom weaver of Glasgow. It has all the shrewd ness and cleverness of a Glasgow workman. If the Metropolitan Anti-Corn-law Association do not bestir itself, it will find the field of usefulness completely occu pied, and we congratulate it, therefore, on its e xhibiting to-day some signs of life. We have received from it a circular containing the names of the members—and very good names they are—and announcing the reso lutions come to by the Society on the 9th instant. If it mean to be useful it must be active, and combat the prejudices while it rouses the energies of the people. Iu resuming the subject of the present state of oar relations in India, rendered of the last i.nportance by the intrigues of Russia in Central Asia, it is lament able to be obliged to number the ignorance and impru dence of the English Missionaries among the causes of the decline of our. influence over the various Brahm minical sects of Hindostan and the Mohamedans of Eastern Persia. Whether it is that Englishmen want that ardent enthusiasm, that e xtraordinary self denial, and that happy adaptation of manners to o e it circumstances which distinguished the XAVIERS of the Church ; bu otf certainlim ' we will is, not hithertotake r t 3 o , de termineone that Christian our Biblical Societies have made, they have been taxed with making, ten hypocrites. Captain WESTMACOTT, whose long residence in India enti tles his statements and opinions to great respect, in the Tract which he has just published on the subject of Indian Commerce and Russian intrigue, referred to in The Sun of Friday last, goes so far as to express doubts of the reality of a single convert to Christianity ever having been truly made by the labours of the British Missionaries. " Nine-tenths of th ose ca lli ng themselves Christians," he affirms, " are notorious for vice and debauchery, or they are outcasts, having no religion, and glad to embrace any creed that holds out a prospect of pecuniary advantage. The character of the converts to Christianity is so morally vile, (for they usually become drunkards, and acquire other Euro pean vices, with none of their virtues,) that this alone would prevent a native g entleman, who has a character to lose, from identifying himself with such a worthless set. Both Europeans and Asiatics shun them, and there is scarcely an instance of our cp , untryme n h av i ng a native Christian in t heir employ. Now this is a very deplorable picture, inasmuch as we cannot expect that the ignorant nativea, CM of the very highest rank, will readily comprehend that ouch 4 depravity of moral conduct is not the effect of the adoption of the Christian religion. This is particularly the case in Central India, where the power of England is only known by the numerous oppressions of wl ; i c h i t i s made the cloak ; and where an idea of the morality produced by a belief in the Gospel, can only be formed from the conduct of those outcasts who imnmend themselves to the protection of the Missionaries by the nominal espousal of Christianity. We are told 00 to i 37.; YV e to the ?reaching of the Gospel, in 49 • some districts funds are placed at the disposal of the missionaries to enable them to dole out charity to the indigent. The instant this is ascertained the preachers do not want for flocks. Thousands crowd around them to test their benevolence, and while the money lasts all goes on swimmingly. But the Hindoos, like the late Lord FARNHAM'S Irish blanket-and-beef converts, desert the preacher the instant they find that the only batik left them to draw upon is the Gospel. Even so lately as January last, Captain WESTMA COTT reminds us of an announcement in the Calcutta Journals of twenty-four Purgunnahs who not only ab jured Christianity, but even took forcible possession of the Christian Chapel of the district, and con verted it into a Hindoo Temple, in which they set up the idol Kartic for the worship of them selves and their families. A great variety of causes contribute to the slow spread of Christianity in the East, among which we may rank as foremost in mag nitude the imprudent zeal and the self-indulging habits of the missionaries. As a proof of the indiscietion of these gentlemen, Captain WEstrm Acorr tells us that when he was at the Hurdwar fair in 1831, his atten tion was directed to the sight of a number of tracts and translations of the Scriptures in the shops of the sel lers of sweetmeats. On inquiry he found that the devotees had been so obliging as to permit a Christian missionary to establish himself in a building over the steps, whence the pilgrims descended for immersion in the Ganges, where the Rev. Gentleman occupied himself in railing against idolatry, and in distribut ing tracts. The demand for the latter was immense, as all had some purpose or other to which to devote the paper. They talked with great glee of his still having a cart-load to distri bute, though he had then furnished a sufficient supply for the use of all the pastry-cooks at the fair. In this anecdote is comprised the history of hundreds of Asiatic missions. No wonder that Christianity is not diffused over the Indies, when mere power of lungs, a bigot zeal, and readiness at tract-distribution, are the requisites principally sought after in all candidates for the mission. Instead of conforming themselves to the habits of the Hindoos in indifferent things, such as by a total abstinence from animal food, spirituous liquors, and the killing of inferior animals, the English mis sionaries disgust, by their manner of living, those ido lators whom they do not corrupt by the secular advantages which they hold out to all who choose to embrace Christianity. Thus it happens that the labours of the missionaries, instead of tending to establish the dominion of Great Britain in India, really undermine it ; whereas, if proper steps were , taken to convert the Hindoos—if men of ex tensive information and approved prudence and piety, were sent out as missionaries—and if they were to begin with the establishment of schools, and the era dication of error, by the gradual culture and develop ment of the mind, as most assuredly such men would do, our benevolent exertions would be crowned with the most complete success. Let us but substitute—or at least try to substitute—reason for rant, both at home and abroad, and we shall soon witness with delight the spread of the Gospel. But the truth is, that some of our foreign Biblical missions are become, in a great measure, jobs, by which a certain clique of mock-pious booksellers and sleek Divines contrive to fare daintily on the mistaken zeal of a simple-minded, religious people. Translations of the Bible ale made into languages that never had all alphabet, to enrich book sellers, and supply cooks on the banks of the Ganges with pastry-bags. Monstrous as this fact may appear, we give it upon good authority. Surely we have had experience enough of the arrant quackery of the Tract system at home, to denounce all recourse to it in the infancy of Christianity in Central Asia. There is very little news of any interest in the French Papers of Wednesday. The little there is will be found in another part of The Sun. CHANCERY COURT.-(THIS DAY.) The LORD CHANCELLOR heard original causes to day, in several of which the parties were not ready, and those heard were not of the slightest importance. The LORD CHANCELLOR observed with respect to those cases in which the parties were not prepared to go on, that it was the duty of Solicitors to instruct Counsel in sufficient time to enable them to proceed with the case when it was called on, and he begged it to be understood by the profession that it was his determina tion in future to strike out all causes in which the parties were not ready, in consequence of Counsel not being in structed. As to the last cause on the paper being privi leged, his Lordship considered that the Court had never adopted a more absurd practice, and acting upon that opi nion, he had never followed it, and never would. His LORDSHIP rose at half-past twelve o'clock, having nothing to proceed with. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1838. VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) Short causes and unopposed petitions occupied his HONOUR .the whole morniug. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) HUMPHRIES V. VIVIAN.-JUDGMENT. Lord LANGDALE, in giving judgment in this case, said, the question was whether a lease, dated the 18th May, 1830, and granted by Charles Carpenter to John Williams, was, as against the defendants in the cause, a valid and subsisting lease as to certain mines and minerals in Corn wall, within the limits and boundaries therein described. On the first trial of the issue that was directed to try that question, the defendant obtained a verdict. A new trial was granted, and a verdict was then obtained by the plain tiff ; and, on the motion made by the defendant for an other trial, it appeared to his Lordship that some points in volved in the main question were safely established, but that he was unable to come to a satisfac tory conclusion on the whole question, because one point appeared to be still doubtful. The validity of the lease, of the 18th of May, 1830, depended on the title of the le•sor. His title was good if, as he alleged, a prior lease of the 11th of December, 1822, of the same lands, was forfeited by the non-performance of the covenants therein contained, and that depended on the question whether an estate called the " Bolenna" was comprised in the Great St. George's let. The defendant alleged that it was. The opinion his Lordship arrived at, from the evi dence, was that if the Bolenna estate was not comprised in the Great St. George's let, the lease of the 18th May, 1830, was, as against the d e f en d an t s , a va lid an d subsist ing lease. If the Bolenna estate was comprised in the Great St. George's let, the question whether the covenants had been duly performed required further investigation. The parties went to trial on the issue then directed to be tried, whether the Bnlenna estate formed part of, or was comprised in the Great St. George's let, granted by the lease of the 11th of December, 1822. 'rhe Jury found it did not, and then the present application was made for a new trial. It seemed to his Lordship to be now made out that the Bolenna was not comprised, and was not intended to be comprised in the Great St. George's let. To suppose it was would be inconsistent with the facts proved and the cotemporaneous and subse quent conduct' of the parties. Another ground made for the motion for a new trial was that the Learned Judge re jected evidence which ought to have been received, and that there was a misdirection to the Jury. His Lordship, however, was of opinion that exclusive of the evidence rejected, there was abundant proof to show that the Bolenna was not comprised in the lease of December, 1822 ; and there was no foundation for the complaint made of the Learned Judge's direction to the Jury. The motion, therefore, must be refused, with costs. QUEEN'S BENCH.-THIS DAY. THE QUEEN V. THE MAYOR OF HARWICH.. In this case a rule for a wandamus had been obtained, directed to the Mayor of the borough of Harwich, and comm anding him to show cause why he should not insert the name of William Middleton on the burgess roll of the said borough. There were five other cases in which rules to the same effect had been obtained, but they all hinged upon the decision to which the Court would come in the pre sent instance. It appealed that the name of William Mid dleton, whose case he would take, had been inserted on the burgess roll under the Municipal Corporations' Act (sth and Gth Wiliam IV., chap. 76), and the 17th section pro vided that any person whose name was on the roll might object to a ny other person by giving, on or b e f ore t h e 15th September in each year, notice in writing to the town clerk and to the person so objected to, according to the f orm in schedule D, or to the like effect. Notice having been served upon Middleton by Alex ander Edgar of King's-quay-street, the parties ap peared before the Mayor and Asssessors at the revision, ang then Middleton objected that the notice served upon him was not " according to forte in sehetlale D, or to the like effect." The Mayor and Assessors, however, decided that the requisitions of the Act had been complied with, and called upon Itiiiddieto4 p N v f.! which not having done, his name was expunged' from the barge's:- roll. When the annual election for municipal officerf came round, William Middleton tendered his vote, but it was rejected, because his name was not upon the burgess-roll, and he now came before the Court for a nzandanzus, to com pel the Mayor to insert his name. What his object could be he (Mr. Thessiger) did not know—it could do him no good, because the elections were over ; and if he had a good qualification, he could not establish it before the next year. The whole question for the Court would be, whether the notice signed by Alexander Edgar was a valid notice under the Act. Mr. DENMAN—Is there not a preliminary objection in this case ? Here is a judicial act of the Mayor, and can we order him to give a different decision to that which in the exercise of his judgment he has thought fit to gave ? Mr. THESSIGER was about to call their Lordships' at tention to that point, because the interpretation clause ren dered all the decisions of the Mayor in such cases valid, provided the descriptions of places and persons were such as to be commonly under-toad. Now, the parties to de termine whether such was the case were the Mayor and assessors, and they determined that the description of the party making the objection was a correct one. The notice of objection was signed " Alexander Edgar, of King's quay-street," and to that notice and signature the objection taken by the party applying was of so trifling a nature that he apprehended the Court would find no difficulty in dis charging the rule. The notice was required to set out the place Of abode and property out of which the party object ing registered, and it was objected in the present case that the word " house" was not added after the name Alexander Edgar. The Learned Counsel contended that the descrip tion given in the notice was quite sufficient to identify the party making the objection. Mr. WORDSWORTH was heard in support of the rule. The COURT having consulted together, Lord DENMAN pronounced the judgment of the Court, referring to the various sections of the Municipal Act which bore upon the case. Mr. WORDSWORTH interrupted his Lordship, by calling his attention to another point. Lord DENMAN—I beg I may not be interrupted in giv ing the judgment of the Court, unless I state something in correctly, in which case I am always desirous of being set right ; but to interrupt the Court with another argument from another section of another Act, is most improper—it is not gentlemanly. Mr. WORDSWORTH—I beg pardon—l misunderstood the section alluded to by your Lordship. Lord DENMAN-But misunderstanding is not a cause for interrupton. His Lordship then said that the Court was of opinion that the rule ought to be discharged, but without costs.—Rule discharged. The other five rules which had been obtained against the Mayor of Harwich were then ordered to be discharged. BAIL COURT.-(TUIS DAY.) Within the last two days nearly eighty Attorneys have been sworn before Mr. Justice Littledale. THE QUEEN V. THE BISHOP OF WINCHESTER. Dr. FREE moved that a mandamus might issue to the Right Reverend Charles Richard Lord Bishop of Win chester, visitor of the College of St. John Baptist of the University of Oxford, oommanding him to hear his (Dr. Free's) appeal, dated the 26th day of M. 1837, and to award him immediate sustenance out of the funds of the said College, and the arrears of the same from the beginning. The Doctor, after stating his claim to the Fellowship at considerable length, and his right to com pensation, referred to the statute of Elizabeth, and inquired if his Lordship wished to hear it read Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE bad no such desire, but did not wish to prevent its being read if the applicant conceived that it would be to his advantage. Dr. Free said he would have read it for the benefit of the bar—(Laughter)—but after his Lordship's intimation, it would probably only be a waste of. time. . Justice LITTLEDALE said that on the last day of Michaelmas Term, 1836, there was a rule nisi for manda mus to the Bishop, to visit the College and hear and de termine the complaint of Dr. Free for sustenance, and re store him to the rights, dues, and privileges of the office. That was heard on the Bth of May, 1837, and the rule was discharged, so that this Court had already adjudicated upon the mandamus to hear and determine this matter. Dr. Free—lf you will excuse me, it was not heard, for when I began to speak, the Lord Chief Justice was eager to give judgment. Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE—The Court have discharged that rule. I want to know how this differs from the former. On the restoration to the Fellowship, the Court have decided. Dr. Free—l don't give up the Fellowship, but I want sustentation. Is it necessary to read the statute 2 (Laughter.) Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE-It only refers to Fellows and Scholars, and if you arc not a Fellow you can have no claim. Dr. Free—lt says that a man who has been promoted shall have 20 marks. If 1 had not been a Fellow I should have no authority to apply. Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE—That is one difficulty. There is another. Relief under sickness and disease appears to he the object of that statute, but your complaint is that you are poor. It does not seem to apply to poverty. Dr. Free—My complaint is that I am in distress. I was so ill that I could not walk across the room, when a gentleman wrote to Oxford, and as they thought public opinion would press on them, they sent 101. When Lord Radnor made his motion in the Hou,e, they promised to allow me something handsome if I would leave Oxford, but the moment I did so it all died away. Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE—Under all the circumstances you may take a rule nisi. Dr. Free—l am obliged to your Lordship's kindness so far, but I have told you my necessitous situation, and if I go out into the street will any body give me a pennyworth of bread and cheese upon your rule nisi ?—(Laughter.) I have had them so often that it amounts to a nil nisi.— ( G reat laughter.) Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE—According to the practice of the Court you cannot have a mandamus absolute in the first instance. Dr. Free—lt is very kind to give me a rule nisi, but what is the worth of it when I have got it ?—( Laughter.) I don't know how I can convert it into food. If you could amalgamite it into something that would be useful, I should go away thankful. Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE—I cannot do anything else. Dr. Free—Will your Lordship order it to be made out ? Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE—The officer of the Court will draw it up. Dr. Free—Because I shall keep it as a curiosity.— (Great laughter.) The Doctor then left the Court. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) CORPORATION OF GRAVESEND V. COLLINS. Mr. Sergeant WILDE moved for a rule to show cause why a special case framed on this action should not include a statement that the quay, or pier, the subject of dispute, was within the village of Gravesend ; or why that issue should not be tried before that special case was argued. The application was made under these circumstances. An Act of Parliament had granted to the Corporation of Gravesend power to make a quay or landing•place, and to claim certain toll from all persons either coming on board or landing from that pier. The language of the Act was that toll should be levied on all vessels carrying passengers from Gravesend to London, or from London to Gravesend, to any places within the villages and parishes of Gravesend and Milton, or either of them. The quay was made and the tolls levied. Subsequently a joint-stock company was formed for erecting another landing-place ,which was accord ingly made ; but the Corporation claimed toll'on this quay because it was within the villages and parishes of Gravesend and Milton, or either of them. The Company objected on the ground that the landing place was extra parochial. It was contended, on the other side, that if withia the village, it was immaterial whether it was or was not in the parish. Masters of vessels refusing to pay the Corpo ration tolls were summoned, and appeals to the Quarter Session took place. It was eventually referred to the Court of Queen's Bench, who could not, however, decide the point, because the point of being within the village was not raised. It having been agreed to make it a special case for the decision of the Court of Common Pleas ; the object of the application was to have that point Paisect in the spe cial case, or have it tried by a Jury before the special case came on. Rule nisi granted. MUSKETT V. HILL. The arguments in this important mining case then pro ceeded. EXCHEQUER COURT.-(THIS DAY.) HARRIS V. TIMMINGS.-JUDGMENT. On the sitting of the Court, this morning, Mr. Baron PALKE gave judgment in this case, which was fully argued last Tuesday. He said the action was brought against the defendant, as one of the DirPctors of the West Cork Min ing Company, and at the trial a verdict passed against him. The plaintiff then came to the Court, and applied for a rule to show cause why he should not be tat liberty to issue execution against the personal ;goods of the defendant, which having been granted and fully argued, the Court took time to consider their judgmen s t o . y, T t h heayt had (Acme ao, and were now prepared tg the Court could not grant a rule pi 41,0 kind, wh ere it had not the authority to vlfosee its order by an attach. ment. 't hr piallitit, if ir, be so advised, m , y i.. ; , 0 the execution upon bis own authority, an d Wi : thout the . ex- R' pected leave of the Court: ciscl A4 r ge l. *W x ills in Middlese m 4140914 1 .3 before t)i 0 I ht II ON James Lord Abinger, Chief Baron of her Majesty's of Exchequer, after Michaelmas Term, 1838. MIDDLESEX. Nov. 27.—Common Juries. Nov. 23.—Revenue, and ditto. Nov. 29, 30.—Common Juries. Dec. I.—Special and Common Juries. Dcc. 3.—Common Juries. Dec. 4.—Trial at Bar. Dec. s.—Common Juries. Dec, 6, 7.—Special and Common Juries. LONDON. Nov. 28.—T0 adjourn only. Dec. 8, 10, 11, 12.—Common Juries. Dec. 13, 14, 15.—Special and Common Juries. Dec 17.—Common Juries. On Tue s d a y, th e 4th D ec ., th ere b e i ng a t r i a l at bar , th e Court will be adjourned from the 3d Dec. till Wednestl the sth of December. Should any Middlesex causes real untried on F r id a y, D ec . 7, th e C ourt w ill re t urn to Middle' sex, :titer the London causes are disposed of. Equity Sittings after Michaelmas Term, 1838, in Ser jeant's lon Hail, before Mr. Baron Alderson : Nov. 27.—Petitions and motions. Dec. 7.—Ditto. Ditto. CP Dec. 10 —.Further directions, pl eas , d emurr ers, an— certions. Dee. 11, 12, 13, and 14.—Causes. Dec. 17.—Petitions and motions. Dec 18.—Further directi ons , pl eas , d emurr ers, and °' caps ions. Dec. 19 and 20.—Causes. c. 21. Petitions and motions. N.B.—The Court will take unopposed petitions motions at the sitting of the Court on Cause-days. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NE CITY/THIS DAY 7' WEL VE 0' CL 0a b e Arrivals this morning —F renc h an d J ama i ca ma il, by t Pigeon, sailed on the 13th of Ortobor, from St. Thomas's u the 22d October; also a mail from Ostend. LIVERPOOL—THURSDAY'S COTTO N MAIDEET.-- —w bale had an extraordinary demand for Cotton to-day, influencedno doubt, by the late accoun t s f rom t h e U n i te d S ta tes; t be sales are fully 10,000 b ags , at yesterday's,advance; sPeca,, lators have taken 1,500 bags. No communication from the Telegraph. Extracts from Jamaica Papers received to the 14th Octon THE CURRENCY.—This important questio n h as been Sett le ; and we may expect that the n ex t p ac k et w ill b r i ng out . OAT in Council respecting it ; upon the receipt of it t o, Governor will, we have no doubt, issue a Proclamation , ,e bodying the provisions of th e O r d er i n C ounc il. The de c o , sion of the Lords of the P r i v y C ounc il i s qu i te diff e rent fr ° oo what was expected by the Directors of the Colonial Bank, 0 one hand, and parties in th e isl an d on t h e ot h er; t hey rel! l .,_ either to make the dollar th e s t an d ar d o f va l ue i n t h e coloni e " or to introduce the currency of the mother country. e The Falmouth post informs us that the " season s" bay in to the great satisfaction of the planters. The rains, vie b ; lieve have been general throug bout the island. ih e ms e bourers have generally resumed work in this country 0 0 t "0 properties where they have not turned out, and the fault, re , learn, rests entirely with the proprietors or agents, I'M, t . fuse to give more than Is. 3d. p er d ay , w hil e they demand- traordinary rents for houses and ground. e9 l The Cornwall Chronicle says, on several estates in St.Js lll oo the labourers are doing b u t li t tl e t o k eep t h e i r cult i va tion• some estates they go to work i n th e morn i ng, wor k pre tty R. but ere they have done h a lf a day's labour, they strike , Pros they have done en oug h f or th e d ay . O ne correspon dent t o us they worked better a month since ; but they seem to b 8 new fangled whim in their heads. His Excellency the Governor yesterday publicly C ol3tri re dieted the report lat e ly p u t f ort h t h at h e i s shortly 500 t quit the island. Aon His Excellency the Gov e r nor h as di rected the public 7, of the following circul ar f rom L or d Gl enelg, dated DOllll4. street, Aug. 5, 1836 : " CIRCULAR. ~, /er r " Sir,—You are alre a dy aware t h at h er Majesty's u° ment have directed th e i r anx i ous cons i deration to the clu es A relating to the Colonial Currency in the West Indies', fat Committee of the P r ivy C ounc il h av i ng been const i tu te i the consideration of the question, they have closed the quiry, and are preparing their report. apiti In the meantime it w ill b e d es i ra bl e that you s h o wd vmder to the Legislature and th e p u bli c at l arge in the colon,/ 71(li. your Government, th a t t h e L or d s o f the Treasury have gigeor rections at the Mint for s u pplyi ng any person with Br i t i s h 5 oil coinage, on receiving an equ i va l ent, and paying the 11 charges of coinage. " have the honour to be, Sir, " Your most obedient hutnble servant, " GLENEL" We have receiv e d D emerara P apers to the 29 t h Sept° ber, from which we copy the following ; _, " In all the isl an d s ( w i t h t h e solitary exception of Jelnsbeit the labourers are said to be gradually returning to former ordinary employments." We hwe received Etarbadoes Papers to the 11th inst. re . The weather in Antigua, this year, has presented 11 . .4 0 % markable contr a st t o t h at o f the last. A most distress drought pre va il e d i n 18 37, w hi le i n 1838 the rains haveloge almost incess an t f rom t h e ear l y part of the year. A very 'bog crop of sugar is expecte d next year. In this island we had sea , onable weather lately. We have r ece i ve d t h e Bermuda Papers, but they CO ntSi ° - no news. re o The intelligence of most importance this morning . 8 1 04 Constantinople, stating that a courier had arrived there ag. English Ambassador's, with accounts confirming the t i t il ' r e , the siege of H erat , b y t h e Shah, whose army had alre B4 p ro• treated fifty mil es , an d t h at Mr. M./sleill was preparing tif ep iof ceed to Teher an . Th us en d s t h e ant i c i pated war with, d, an d and the dread o f our Eastern possessions being invade 1 01 l no doubt, by th e next overland despatch from India. v i : frol B have m ore f avoura bl e i nte lli gence than lately rece i v e that quarter. THE FUNDS. o ast The Belgian question damped the British Market Ye stP oit' ' morning ; but towards the close Consuls had a better app i r ante, and left off at 931 94 f or Money, and Accoun t for J ili k ary, 94k, and opened this morning at the above pric es " BAIA chequer Bills, 66 68 prem. ; India Bonds, 63 6 5 ; Stock, 2031- ; India Stock, 261 262. ues ib In the Foreign M ar k et, S pan i s h Active, 17- 1 • N rtug lei tk 31i ; Three per C en t s., 2 0 / i ; Brazilian, 771 - 7 8 1; " °it 231 ; Colombian, 24; Dutch Two-and-a - Half per C 6l) 544 ; Five per Cents., 1001 I. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCg• " Bank Stock ...... pr. 20:3 , India Stock ............ ... .... 6 3 0...,,, il per Cent. Red. 93%14 [ Ditto Bonds .. . ................ 3 per Cent. Cons 94 3 ri, South Sea Sto ck ................... 3', per Cent lOO% Old Annuities .. ........ ...... • . , Ditto Red. lo o ,i, A New Ditto . ....... . ........ , i.. 0 New 3% per Cent lOl% % 3 per Cent. Annuities, 17 ' 6 6 illq„,s. N,:w 513er Cent. Bank Long Annuities to expire Ditto 500 ...... 0 69P Jan. 5, 1860 - Ditto Small .................. ( ...-- l' o , Oct. 10, 1859 - Ditto Commercial .......•• ,..1:, Jan. 5, 1863 — Ditto Advertised ......... ... , Jan. 5, 1881 —_ Bank Stock for Account ••• e i April 5, 1880 - India Stock for Account ....... :99. Jan. 5, 1870 - Consols for Account ......... 00,, PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE 19.° Austrian Bonds Peruvian 80nd5........... .....:: Belgian Bonds Ditto Account ................ Ditto Account ..,0 Brazilian Bonds Ditto Acoount D; Ditto ,New Bonds ......... . 0 1 1 # ... ;20 ........ Ditto 'Account ........... ._ ... 0, Buenos Ayres Bonds —l Ditto, 3 per Cent. ........ .. 1 "/ Ditto Account Chilian Bonds — 1 Prussian Bonds .. . ..... ..0' .. / I) tto Account Ditto Account. ........•••• : / Columbian Bonds Ditto Account Ditto Metallic ........ .••••...., / Columbian Bonds, 1824 2sk Spanish Bonds.. ........... .. .... , Ditto Account Danish Bonds Ditto Account Greek Bonds .— ' French, 5 per cent ......... ,/,,,p Ditto Bonds, 1825 Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto A ccount —.---. xc ange. ....... , Ditto Account Ditto, fi per Cent. 2 31 Ditto Account ......••' M 4 7, ----- ----- ' 3 E l 3 ,:r h r c c e e n n t. ................. ...... 5/ /ifrCio '' Ditto . ACeount Ditto, 5 per cent.,.......... i 0 Neapolitan — Ditto Account,...... •**. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ON - E O'Cl',% j‘ pef Sli r Rrtish Iron Company 4 50 Birmingham and Derby Rail wa y C ompany 5O .64 .i‘tern Counties Railway lO Great Western Railway Company ............... s. mien and Birmingham Railway Company •9O 1 1,03;1 :and "reenwich Railway CbtopanT 2O General Steam Navigation Ceolpany ....... l4 .' Pro iineial Bank of Ireland 25 ir l lo o -- HALF-PAS bf A Hamburgh Mail has arr i ve d w i t h P apers 01 ~ „ 0 bo tea November, the political news they contain is anticiP a os 9 , the French express this morning. Metalliques, I°6; ip Shares, 1,460. eOt tv off We do not h ear o f any further arrivals to the presost from New York or Canada, owing to the prevailing of winds. There has bee n very li ttle do i ng in the course of t be lll,as 00 ing in a n y o f t h e Funds ; the Government broker ooti° purchased ab out 4,000/. Reduced at 93+. Money - g r f r very plentif u l, an d discounts at low rates. The accou n t s rece i ved from Jamaica this morning 3- e 15 0 r fo of a satisfactory nature, 3A . ' , or 4 Consols may ly e quote d at present fo - r the Account 9 110; Money they touched 94 in the morlii, at this boo r 63 o' 93i : Exchequer Bill s , 66 68 ; India * Bonds lowe r ' t; .'N Bank Stock, 203; India Stock nothing done. ri DO , o tO Spanish, 17,-; . Portuguese, 31.1 ; Three per we ni . Cc Dutch Two.ad-a- Half per Cents., 54' lower; Fil e P — Or' looi #. I In Shares little doing, Great Western, 13E P rei mingliama 83 prem. C. ri 0 C 1 THREE o'.--- _ - Consols for the Account, 94. It is with unfeidgn e — lp eas — ure we announce , tb i l tb si l pEeanrrfolowromsfleDysien;reabeyfe,haoi his Wednesdaywreheiecnh assistance K of a domestic, to walk across two r° e o bis t " 41b. loaf at Bordeaux, pool Timm f t hsl ~ o . THE FRENCH LOA Fo--The present pri -e t h s is ev L er o e rd i s it h t i o p et as jill t n b e e s e s 2iff A HINT - °Nneotfircaencl-135,0bpePe1/11 given that Government will receive tenders for the 11 or 100,00 3. balls. Viscoowat Lowther returned to Milan 011 the I°l nst, ;rim a tour. o f tile The Archhish o p o f C an t er b u ry, as L 0rd ,, , 0 0 . 1 0 Manor of L am b et h, h as , i t i s un d er stood, rer e t - o cl 9 o ' i lease o f A s tl ey ' s A mp hi t h eatre to D ucro w, who ju t of 13 rebuild the premises before the commenceraeo nasou,